![This St. Louisan survived Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bess-900x506.png)
This St. Louisan survived Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen
St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 24, 2021
![Jeremy Schonfeld premiered his rock opera Iron & Coal at the Strathmore in North Bethesda, Md.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/607ef4582670a.image_-900x450.jpg)
St. Louis native mines relationship with Holocaust survivor father for rock opera
Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published April 20, 2021
![St. Louis stories from the Holocaust: Marie Cori](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/607ee2b00510d.image_-900x582.png)
St. Louis’ stories from the Holocaust: Marie Cori
Published April 20, 2021
![“You see Miri, I was really a famous artist before the war. I was known for these portraits.” Miriam Friedman Morris with her father, the chess enthusiast and portraitist, David Friedmann. St. Louis, 1957](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/de8d6014747a214fced1b7923f30bfab.jpg)
The chess master portraits that escaped the Holocaust
By Miriam Friedman Morris
• Published February 17, 2021
![Frances and Abe Gersten 2012](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/b018f652bf6e940861fbdb2b0dcfe512-600x900.jpg)
Frances Gersten, 92, survived Holocaust and embraced life in St. Louis
By Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published August 27, 2020
![An artists rendering of the interior of the renovated and expanded Holocaust Museum and Learning Center.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/648949c2ed150253ce5e0a379ebd56bb-900x534.jpg)
St. Louis Holocaust Museum plans major expansion
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published January 27, 2020
![Rachel Miller at home, in front of paintings of three of her family members lost during the Holocaust— her mother, father and sister. A German prisoner of war created the portraits, working from photographs of the family. Photos: Lisa Mandel](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/15306ae2048f899c81ea76cf8a0c7420-900x600.jpg)
Holocaust survivor Rachel Miller to speak at Wash U Hillel Kristallnacht commemoration
Published November 7, 2019
![Mischa Braitberg and daughter Tova Braitberg perform on Sunday at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center during a program about their father and grandfather, Gregor Braitberg, a Holocaust survivor. ‘Gregor’s Violin’ is the title of a new exhibit at the museum. Photo: Eric Berger](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dd339a809feaddef0657e8ef1ebc1994-900x600.jpg)
Violin helps tell family’s story of survival during Holocaust
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published February 21, 2019
Federation provides $10k for Holocaust survivors’ dental services
Published May 25, 2017
![Holocaust survivor Jack Jaget in “Survivor: A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust.” Photos: Harry Borden](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/53ef437490f95dbb8f1fd105f38cb152.jpg)
Portraits of Perseverance
By Curt Schleier, JTA
• Published April 20, 2017
![First-year students from Washington University in St. Louis who were enrolled in the yearlong “The History, Memory, and Representation of the Holocaust” program gathered at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center for the Feb. 2 opening of an exhibit about their experiences. Above, student Cecily Hibbs tours the exhibit with her mother, Roz Hibbs. Photo: Sid Hastings / WUSTL Photos](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/14ef3d22efb4ae1b707fb957dc04b944.jpg)
Holocaust beyond the numbers
By Dale Singer, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 8, 2017
Shoah Shanda
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published February 1, 2017
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